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Dalits in Modern India

Author: S. M. Michael

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2007-05-08

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780761935711

This second, revised and enlarged edition looks back at the aspirations and struggle of the marginalised Dalit masses and looks forward to a new humanity based on equality, social justice and human dignity. Within the context of Dalit emancipation, it explores the social, economic and cultural content of Dalit transformation in modern India. These articles, by some of the foremost researchers in the field, are presented in four parts: Part I deals with the historical material on the origin and development of untouchability in Indian civilisation. Part II contests mainstream explanations and shows that the Dalit vision of Indian society is different from that of the upper castes. Part III offers a critique of the Sanskritic perspective of traditional Indian society, and fieldwork-based portraits of the Hinduisation of Adivasis in Gujarat, Dalit patriarchy in Maharashtra and Dalit power politics in Uttar Pradesh. Part IV concentrates on the economic condition of the Dalits.

Untouchable

Author: S. M. Michael

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781555876975

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Exploring the enduring legacy of untouchability in India, this book challenges the ways in which the Indian experience has been represented in Western scholarship. The authors introduce the long tradition of Dalit emancipatory struggle and present a sustained critique of academic discourse on the dynamics of caste in Indian society. Case studies complement these arguments, underscoring the perils and problems that Dalits face in a contemporary context of communalized politics and market reforms.

Caste and nature

Author: Mukul Sharma

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-09-25

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0199091609

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Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social entity. Mukul Sharma shows how caste and nature are intimately connected. He compares Dalit meanings of environment to ideas and practices of neo-Brahmanism and certain mainstreams of environmental thought. Showing how Dalit experiences of environment are ridden with metaphors of pollution, impurity, and dirt, the author is able to bring forth new dimensions on both environment and Dalits, without valourizing the latter’s standpoint. Rather than looking for a coherent understanding of their ecology, the book explores the diverse and rich intellectual resources of Dalits, such as movements, songs, myths, memories, and metaphors around nature. These reveal their quest to define themselves in caste-ridden nature and building a form of environmentalism free from the burdens of caste. The Dalits also pose a critical challenge to Indian environmentalism, which has, until now, marginalized such linkages between caste and nature.

Dalits and the Democratic Revolution

Author: Gail Omvedt

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Gail Omvedt traces the Dalit movement in colonial India from its origins in 19th century India to the death of its leader, B R Ambedkar, in 1956.

Dalit Theology and Dalit Liberation

Author: Peniel Rajkumar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1317154932

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In fulfilling the long-awaited need for a constructive and critical rethinking of Dalit theology this book offers and explores the synoptic healing stories as a relevant biblical paradigm for Dalit theology in order to help redress the lacuna between Dalit theology and the social practice of the Indian Church. Peniel Rajkumar's starting point is that the growing influence of Dalit theology in academic circles is incompatible with the praxis of the Indian Church which continues to be passive in its attitude towards the oppression of the Dalits both within and outside the Church. The theological reasons for this lacuna between Dalit theology and the Church's praxis, Rajkumar suggests, lie in the content of Dalit theology, especially the biblical paradigms explored, which do not offer adequate scope for engagement in praxis.

Face Reading

Author: Dr. W.L. Pande

Publisher: Global Vision Pub House

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9788182202832

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The Book Offers You The Kind Of Self-Training That Can Make You A Confident Face Reader. It Contains Comprehensive Information About The Nature And Classification Of Different Type Of Faces, And Its Astrological Importance. In This Book, Author Examines The Lines On The Forehead, The Colour Of Eyes, The Contour Of Nose, And The Structure Of Face, These Parts Studied One By One And Their Deductions Collated Will Be A Replica Of What You Observed On A Particular Face. If You Are Interested To Become A Face Reader, This Book Will Help You To Become Good Face Reader. If You Are Already A Good Face Reader, The Book Will Help You To Become A Better One. Hope This Book Will Be One Of The Best Assets Of Face Readers.

Unquiet Worlds

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Published: 2004

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13:

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Contributed papers presented at a workshop held at Berlin in September 2003.

Understanding Caste

Author: Gail Omvedt

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788125045731

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"Understanding Caste approaches the historical issue of caste and anti-caste movements from a position of insightful inquiry and rigorous scholarship. Critiquing the sensibility which equates Indian tradition with Hinduism, and Hinduism with Brahmanism which considers the Vedas as the foundational texts of Indian culture and discovers within the Aryan heritage the essence of Indian civilisation it shows how even secular minds remain imprisoned within the Brahmanical vision. And so it looks at the alternative traditions nurtured within dalit movements, which have questioned this way of looking at Indian society and history." --Synopsis on back cover.